About the Bodos: The Bodos are one of the largest among the Indo-Mongoloid origin of Tibeto-Burmese languages and the largest single Boro language speaking tribe in North Eastern India. Bodos are considered to be the son of the soil in Assam and culturally richest community of the foot hills of the Great Himalayas (Assam, Bengal), the Barak Valley, the Surma Valley, the Hilly region of Cachar, North Cachar and Karbi Anglong as well as the Brahmaputra Valley. Linguistically the Garo, the Dimasa, the Mech, the Hajong, the Sonowal, the Deori, the Thengal, the Rabha, the Tiwa, the Borok of Tripura and many other cognate tribes are the part of this great Bodo race. Majority of them settled in Assam. The census report of 1971, states that the Bodos were the 8 (eight) largest Scheduled Tribe (ST) group in India and according to 2011 census, Bodo belongs to the largest ethnic group in North East India.

          The generic term ‘Bodo’ was first used by R.H. Hodgson in writings to a group of languages, which was confirmed by G.A. Grearson in his book ‘Lingu

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